Iron County register., 1887-04-21

IS the advertisement coiu.nns OF the
London Daily Ne,cs, on the 18th, appeared a
protest against the Coercion bill, signed
by 80, 900 non-conformist ministers.
THE Navy Department has been in
formed that Pay Clerk Chas. Il. Gibson.
of the Ossipee, disappeared mysterlously
on March % from the Norfolk Navy Yard,
since which time nothing has been heard
as to his whereabouts. His accounts are
found to be correct He leaves wife
and child in Washi ington.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has awarded to
the Bethlehem Iron Works Company of
Pennsylvania the contracts for furnish
ing about 1,40o tons of steel gun forging
and 500 tons of steel armor plates at a
total cost of "a, 512,93S. Its bid, though
not the lowest for the gun steel, was the
lowest in the aggregate for the two con-
tracts.
THREE domestlcs employed at the Cen
trail hotel at Allegheny City, Pa, were
q ute seriously injured by the fall Of an
elevator on the l4th. The girls were
going to the third floor, when the rope
broke and the cage dropped to the cellar,
distance of about forty feet. The names
of the girls could not be learned, as the
landlord woul Id give no information.
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totally destroyed by fire on the 14th. Tae
children were rescued with difficulty, so
rapidly did the flames spread. All the
uniforms, ammunition and accoutrements
of Company B, Thirteenth regiment, o. N.
G., were destroyed.
TROUBLE IS brewing on the Kiewa In
dian reservation.
THE village of Ainswacth, Ia, was
nearly destroyed by fire on the 18th.
SECRETARY WHITNEY says the cruiser
Atlanta will probably be accepted
THE Cocheco Mills at Dover, N H, were
destroyed by fire on the 18th. There were
a mum ber of casualties.
DURING a thunderstorm at Youngs-
town, O., on the 18th, Mrs. Michael Mallory
and the family cat were killed by light
ming.
JAMES c. DELANo, formerly of Gales
burg, ILL.,, died at his home, Mount Pleas
ant, near Washington, D. c., on the 18th.
DR.. BRuILL, the alleged Wisconsin wife
murderer, died suddenly in Jail at Dodge.
vile on the night of the 14th. 1t is thought
he suicided.
BY premature blast of giant powder
in a cut on a grade near Buena Vista, Cal,
on the 18th, six men were killed and
seven wounded.
BRILLIANT young Virginian named
Robert Gatewood suicided on a steamer
near Norfolk on the 18th. He imagined
himself pursued by demons.
A STORM of opposition is brewing in the
Canadian Parliament over the govern
ment course on the fisheries trouble.
Mr.. PowDERLY points out few vital
political issues for consideration of the
Knights of Labor and the people of the
country at large.
THE defense closed its argument in the
TT o1 fria OF r.,
on the 18th. 1t was thought the case
would reach the jury by the evening of
the 10th.
CHARLES TALBOT, the Memphis hotel
clerk, has been convicted Of stealing
Fanny Davenport's diamonds, and SEN
fenced to five years imprisonment.
A HOTEL in Amsterdam, Holland, was
destroyed by fire on the 18th, and four
guests, who had visited the city to attend
the Kings birthday festivities, were
burned to death.
EMIN BEY, On his expedition through
Africa, met in the White Nile region KING
Mwanga, eighteen years of age, who has
1000 wives.
ARCHBISHOP CoRRI2AN received a cable
message on the 15th saying Mgr. Quinn
died in Paris on the afternoon Of that day.
Mgr. Quinn was vicar-general Of the
diocese of New York City.
BESSIE MASON, ten years OF age, while
playing at Port Byron, Ill.,, on the even
ing of the 18th, fell into stone quarry,
forty feet, and was instantly killed.
A LARGE fire was reported in progress
at Kennebunkport, Ne, on the morning of
the 10th. Half of the business section of
the town had been consumed. The Bidde-
ford fire engines were telegraphed for
and left on special train.
THE funeral of Bishop Lee took place az
Wilmington, Del, on the 18th, and was
very largely attended. Nine bishops and
nearly one hundred clergymen participas-
ed in the obsequies. The remains were
inferred in the old Swedes' churchyard.
HENRY INNER, the oldest locomotive en-
gineer in the United States, died in
Whistle, Ala, on the 10Th. He ran the
first engine on the Charleston & Hamburg
railroad, the third railroad built in this
The drivers of the engine were
of hard wood.
HALF the town of Pegu, fifty-eight miles
northeast of Rangoon, has been destroyed
by fire, which was presumably incendiary.
Plots have been discovered among the in
habitants of Upper Burmah and the
Dacoits to burn towns in that section,
Europeans and proclaim new
king.